Chapter Summaries

Ma Hongjun chose the harder training path and kept up with Shen Ranxi and Oscar over the next three years. After reaching level twenty, Shen Ranxi set out with Flender and Li Yusong to find her second Soul Ring, but their tavern plans were interrupted by a sudden noise.

• Ma Hongjun vowed to endure the difficult training, and the teachers praised Shen Ranxi’s plan to earn money by punishing criminals.
• Ma Hongjun joined Shen Ranxi and Oscar for daily morning training, and Little Bell helped with their work.
• Three years passed, and Shen Ranxi reached level twenty despite her Soul Power dropping as the Formless Heart Sutra compressed it and increased her capacity.
• Teacher Li and Flender took Shen Ranxi to find her second Soul Ring, while Zhao Wuji ordered Oscar and Ma Hongjun to keep training.
• At a tavern near the forest, Shen Ranxi offered to gather valuable herbs and split the profits with Flender before a sudden loud noise interrupted them.

Shen Ranxi traveled through Sunset Forest with Flender and Li Yusong to search for a suitable Soul Ring, encountering dangerous Soul Beasts and a group of nobles. While Flender fought a Ten-Thousand-Year Scaled Beast, a vine dragged Shen Ranxi away from Li Yusong.

• At the tavern, Shen Ranxi noticed a golden-haired girl protected by three Old Men, and Flender arranged for Shen Ranxi to sleep in their rented suite.
• Flender and Li Yusong led Shen Ranxi into Sunset Forest, where she fought a Vampire Bat and shared food with her Teachers during a rest.
• Flender discovered that nobles were clearing part of the forest and killing Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, so the group took another route.
• Flender fought a Ten-Thousand-Year Scaled Beast while Li Yusong protected Shen Ranxi.
• A vine coiled around Shen Ranxi's leg and dragged her away after she called out to Teacher Li.

Shen Ranxi was dragged into a hidden refuge by an Immortal Herb and met Fei Ya, a divine beast from another world. After learning they shared an origin beyond this world, Fei Ya began considering how Shen Ranxi might help it return home.

• Li Yusong pursued the vine creature after it dragged Shen Ranxi away, while Flender remained trapped by the Scale Armor Beast.
• Shen Ranxi struck her head and lost consciousness, then woke in a refuge where Fei Ya scolded the Soul Returning Tree for bringing a human there.
• Fei Ya recognized that Shen Ranxi’s soul carried the scent of the Age of Dharma’s End and revealed that it had fallen through a spatial rift from another world.
• Shen Ranxi offered Fei Ya chicken drumsticks, learned of its ties to goddess Nuwa, and shared her own story while concealing the system.
• Fei Ya realized Shen Ranxi might help it return home because she was connected to the Divine Sense of the powerful Monkey.

Shen Ranxi and Fei Ya formed an Equal Contract, then set out through the Sunset Forest together. When they discovered an Evil Soul Master torturing Soul Beasts, Shen Ranxi was torn between fleeing and intervening, and the chapter left them retreating from the scene.

• Fei Ya showed Shen Ranxi its Companion Space and offered to accompany her, promising access to its space and its ability to find treasures.
• Shen Ranxi and Fei Ya completed an Equal Contract, creating a soul connection and drawing attention from across the Sunset Forest.
• Fei Ya gathered the Soul Returning Tree and valuable plants before guiding Shen Ranxi around powerful Soul Beasts as they left.
• Shen Ranxi followed the sound of cries and discovered a Soul Ancestor Evil Soul Master performing a bloody ritual on low-level Soul Beasts.
• Fei Ya shielded Shen Ranxi's eyes, and they retreated after she saw a frightened young Soul Beast; Fei Ya urged her to leave because they could not defeat the Soul Master.

Shen Ranxi used Beast Luring Powder and a trap to disrupt an Evil Soul Master's ritual and rescue the captured Soul Beasts, while bargaining with the system for rewards if she could kill him. As the Evil Soul Master was battered by Soul Beasts, he unleashed a black bead that spread a deadly dark aura.

• Shen Ranxi gave Fei Ya Beast Luring Powder and sent it to draw powerful Soul Beasts toward the Evil Soul Master's formation.
• The system offered Shen Ranxi Flame Dragon Blood and Twenty Consecutive Draws if she delivered the final blow, and she agreed to try.
• Fei Ya lured a horde of Soul Beasts to the formation, and Shen Ranxi watched from a distance aboard Great Sage's Somersault Cloud.
• The Soul Beasts wrecked the formation and freed the Soul Beast Mother and Daughter, while the Evil Soul Master summoned his Blazing Sun Demon Eye Spider against the Spiked Pig leader.
• Shen Ranxi's powder made the Spiked Pig see the Evil Soul Master as a mate, and a Moonlit Night Demon Wolf joined the fight.
• As the Evil Soul Master was battered by the two Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, he sprayed blood onto a black bead, silencing the area and spreading a dark aura that withered plants and tormented nearby Soul Beasts.

Shen Ranxi killed a Soul Ancestor who had unleashed the World Devouring Bead, then learned from the system that the bead could awaken Erebus and destroy the continent. She refused the system’s offer of 500 Merit Points and left it to negotiate for the dangerous artifact.

• The bead drained the life force of the Soul Beasts, and the wounded man rejoiced until Shen Ranxi struck him with her Golden Cudgel.
• Shen Ranxi killed the man, ordered Fei Ya to loot his Soul Tool, and had the Soul Returning Tree store the bead before fleeing as someone approached.
• Shen Ranxi settled in a tree for the night and demanded her mission reward from the system, which asked her to hand over the bead.
• The system explained that the World Devouring Bead: Nether Blood Amber could awaken Erebus and drain all life from the world.
• Shen Ranxi rejected the system’s offer of 500 Merit Points and told it to negotiate a better price.

Shen Ranxi traded the dangerous bead to the system for a fourth-page shop choice, ten thousand Merit Points, and Twenty Consecutive Draws. After browsing the shop and recognizing the Formless Heart Sutra as the method Great Sage had given her, she postponed buying anything and prepared to rest under Big Ox’s protection.

• Shen Ranxi bargained with the system until it approved her demand for one item from the fourth shop page and ten thousand Merit Points, while she also insisted on her Twenty Consecutive Draws.
• Shen Ranxi handed the bead to the system, trusting it not to break its promise.
• Shen Ranxi browsed the shop’s pills, artifacts, cultivation methods, and technology, then recognized the Formless Heart Sutra as Great Sage’s gift.
• Shen Ranxi decided to wait until after the Twenty Consecutive Draws before choosing a shop item.
• Shen Ranxi asked Feifei to take out Big Ox to guard her while she slept, relying on the Soul Returning Tree’s domain and abilities.

Shen Ranxi reunited with Flender and Li Yusong after escaping the Evil Soul Master, then joined them in searching for a suitable Soul Beast. The group reached a herd of Blazing Earth Rhinoceroses, and Shen Ranxi received a system reward for obtaining a Soul Ring beyond the Second Soul Ring limit.

• Shen Ranxi searched the Evil Soul Master's Soul Tool and took its valuables before flying with Feifei to look for Flender and Li Yusong.
• Shen Ranxi found Flender and Li Yusong facing mercenaries and nobles, and Flender used his Soul Saint might to force the nobles to the ground.
• Shen Ranxi told Flender and Li Yusong how Feifei, the Soul Returning Tree, and a group of Soul Beasts had helped her escape.
• Flender and Li Yusong led Shen Ranxi to a herd of Blazing Earth Rhinoceroses and recommended one over six hundred years old for her.
• The system announced that Shen Ranxi had obtained a Soul Ring exceeding the Second Soul Ring limit and awarded her 1,000 Merit Points.

Shen Ranxi absorbed a thousand-year Earth Rhinoceros Soul Ring and gained the skill Crimson Flame Parting Clouds. Back at the Academy, she fell asleep while Feifei explored and discovered Oscar’s cooking.

• Shen Ranxi persuaded Flender to let her absorb the thousand-year Earth Rhinoceros Soul Ring, with Li Yusong supporting her.
• Shen Ranxi successfully gained Crimson Flame Parting Clouds and demonstrated its fiery blade attack to Flender and Li Yusong.
• Flender flew Shen Ranxi and Li Yusong back to the Academy, where Shen Ranxi went straight to her dormitory and fell asleep.
• Feifei took Shen Ranxi’s pet tag and wandered to the Cafeteria, where it stole Ma Hongjun’s chicken leg.
• Oscar and Ma Hongjun recognized Feifei as Shen Ranxi’s pet, and Feifei accepted Oscar’s pastry and appointed him its spare chef.

After returning from a week away, Shen Ranxi reunited with Little Bell and her friends at the cafeteria. She challenged Oscar and Ma Hongjun to fight her so she could see whether they had kept up their training.

• Ma Hongjun angrily accused Oscar of saving Peach Blossom Cake for Shen Ranxi and giving some to a Soul Beast.
• Shen Ranxi recalled opening a restaurant in Suotuo City with Flender and the teachers, using her recipes and business plans to build the venture.
• Shen Ranxi woke in the afternoon, took Little Bell to the cafeteria, and Little Bell joyfully welcomed her sister after the two had fallen asleep together.
• Little Bell pulled Ma Hongjun away when he pounced on Shen Ranxi, then made him address her sister respectfully.
• Shen Ranxi asked Oscar and Ma Hongjun to fight her so she could check whether they had slacked off while she was gone.
• Ma Hongjun lamented the coming fight and kept eating, while Oscar mocked his appetite and Ma Hongjun praised delicious food to Little Bell.

Shen Ranxi used her accumulated luck to make a batch of system draws, chose the Hide the Sky and Cross the Sea ability, and continued training while building a beauty business with Mosna. The chapter ended with Shen Ranxi heading to Suotuo City with her friends to visit the shop she had helped establish.

• Feifei insisted on being introduced to Xiao Ranran’s companions, and Shen Ranxi later gave Dean Flender most of the medicinal herbs she had gathered.
• Shen Ranxi used twenty consecutive draws, received a mix of useful items and empty gifts, and chose Hide the Sky and Cross the Sea as her entitlement.
• Shen Ranxi kept training and making food, soap, sachets, and incense while Oscar and Ma Hongjun mooched her scented products.
• Feifei asked Shen Ranxi to buy her pretty clothes, and Shen Ranxi agreed in exchange for planting things in Feifei’s space.
• Shen Ranxi, Mosna, and Mosna’s sister built a beauty salon and workshop, employing village women and handsome attendants while protecting the business from troublemakers.
• Shen Ranxi set out for Suotuo City with Feifei, Oscar, Ma Hongjun, and Little Bell to visit the salon.

Shen Ranxi visited Mosna’s beauty shop with her friends, reviewed the month’s record-breaking accounts and gathered intelligence, then found an afternoon auction to attend. She left with Little Bell and the others after arranging a luxurious spa treatment for Feifei and receiving a box of parts for Little Bell.

• Shen Ranxi and her companions visited Mosna’s shop, where the wealthy women teased the youngsters and Ma Hongjun eagerly ate pastries.
• Feifei asked to explore the shop, so Shen Ranxi arranged for an attendant to give him a full beauty and hair treatment.
• Shen Ranxi reviewed Mosna’s accounts and intelligence reports, spotted an auction scheduled for that afternoon, and declined to open a branch.
• Mosna gave Shen Ranxi a box of parts she had ordered for Little Bell, and Shen Ranxi returned to the lounge to gather everyone for a meal.
• Shen Ranxi found Feifei enjoying his spa treatment and promised to bring him back, while Little Bell hugged her sister and the group left together.

Shen Ranxi announced plans to sell Spirit Food at her restaurant before taking her friends to the Underground Market auction. To get an invitation, she robbed and beat a lecherous young master, then left with the invitation and his money.

• Shen Ranxi told the restaurant manager to promote ten daily servings of Spirit Food, which she said could strengthen the body, extend lifespan, and speed up Soul Power absorption.
• Feifei ate three tables of food before Shen Ranxi stopped it so the group could head to the auction.
• Shen Ranxi led Oscar, Ma Hongjun, Little Bell, and Feifei to the Underground Market, where she waited for an invitation holder to pass by.
• Shen Ranxi snatched a fat young master away from his attendants and took his auction invitation after he threatened and insulted her.
• Ma Hongjun searched the unconscious man, and the group took his Gold Coins and invitation before preparing to leave.

Shen Ranxi, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and Little Bell visited the Zhuoguang Underground Market and auction, where Shen Ranxi witnessed the exploitation of female attendants and resolved to become powerful enough to change the rules. She showed no interest in the early auction lots until Feifei urged her to bid on a bundle of ores, which Shen Ranxi won despite not knowing why they were valuable.

• Shen Ranxi explained the Underground Market’s rules to Ma Hongjun and Oscar as they entered in disguise.
• At the auction, Shen Ranxi saw the female attendants being treated as commodities and told Little Bell, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun they could not help them yet.
• A bidder spent three thousand Gold Soul Coins on an eighteen-hundred-year Revolving Heaven Snow Goose after the auctioneer’s prompting.
• Feifei told Shen Ranxi to bid on five forging ores, and Shen Ranxi won the lot for two hundred fifty gold coins.
• Oscar asked Shen Ranxi why she had spent so much on the stones, and she said she would explain later.

Shen Ranxi attended an Underground Market auction, bought an unknown seed and several treasures, then returned to the Academy and discovered her Second Martial Soul, the Great Void Kun, had emerged on its own. The chapter left her marveling at the tiny creature as it affectionately rubbed against her.

• The auctioneer sold a Wisdom Skull Soul Bone for three hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, while Shen Ranxi and her companions decided they could not afford the risks of owning it.
• Shen Ranxi won an unknown seed for six Gold Soul Coins at the auction's final lot.
• Shen Ranxi and her companions browsed the Underground Market, where Oscar bought a dagger after Shen Ranxi haggled its price down to five Gold Soul Coins.
• Ma Hongjun gave Little Bell a butterfly hair accessory, and she accepted it happily before the group returned to the Academy.
• Feifei identified Shen Ranxi's Star Profound Red Gold and Lapis Lazuli treasures, then asked why she had summoned her Second Martial Soul.
• The Great Void Kun emerged from Shen Ranxi without her intending to summon it and affectionately rubbed against her cheek.

Shen Ranxi learned that her Great Void Kun needed enormous amounts of treasure to grow and began searching for information to help it. After the Academy library proved useless, she sought advice from the Teachers and learned that Flender might know about a Martial Soul mutation with its own consciousness.

• The Great Void Kun swallowed ore, and Shen Ranxi discovered it would eat rocks as well as fruit.
• Feifei explained that Great Void Kun cubs needed vast amounts of Heavenly materials and earthly treasures, while pills could shorten their growth period by one-third.
• Shen Ranxi resolved to find a way to support the Great Void Kun and fed it the remaining ore before setting out food for Feifei.
• Shen Ranxi found no useful information about Martial Soul Mutation or Pill Masters in the Academy library, and Ma Hongjun advised her to ask the Teachers.
• Shao Xin told Shen Ranxi that Flender had a friend whose Martial Soul mutation had developed its own consciousness, so she headed to find Flender.

Shen Ranxi overcame repeated failures to make Pills, then trained alone in the mountains to improve her survival and combat skills. She left the Bloodthirsty Bats’ nest after defeating its thousand-year leader and wiping out the colony.

• Flender explained to Shen Ranxi that Martial Soul mutations could be beneficial or harmful, easing her concern about the Great Void Kun.
• After more than two hundred attempts, Shen Ranxi successfully made ten Pills, sharing them with Feifei and the Great Void Kun.
• With just over three months before Academy admissions, Shen Ranxi refused company and entered the mountains to train alone.
• Shen Ranxi learned to identify dangerous insects and plants, gather herbs, and make Poison Pills during her first weeks in the mountains.
• After repeatedly harassing a thousand-year Bloodthirsty Bat and improving her skills, Shen Ranxi used her Long Staff to kill it and wiped out the nest.

After three months of training and battling Soul Beasts, Shen Ranxi returned to Shrek Academy with Royal Jelly and gifts for her Teachers. Little Bell welcomed her home and resolved to grow strong enough to protect herself.

• Shen Ranxi burned and buried the bones in the Bloodthirsty Bat nest, then spent three months training, fighting Soul Beasts, refining Pills, and mastering her techniques.
• Shen Ranxi and Feifei stole one-third of the Yellow Springs Bees’ Royal Jelly after luring many of them away, left Pills as compensation, and escaped the angry queen.
• Shen Ranxi returned to Shrek Academy, where Teacher Zhao, Shao Xin, and Li Yusong checked on her and welcomed her back.
• Little Bell embraced Shen Ranxi and silently strengthened her resolve to become capable of protecting herself and attending Shrek Academy.

Shen Ranxi reunited with Little Bell and the Shrek teachers after three months of training, then revealed she had reached Level 30 at only eleven years old. Two days later, she continued training with the Golden Cudgel and learned that her Dean wanted to speak with her.

• Little Bell told Shen Ranxi that Sister Mosna had asked her to bring something, and the sisters reunited with Oscar and Ma Hongjun before heading to the Cafeteria.
• Shen Ranxi gave the teachers gifts and announced that she had broken through to Level 30, leaving them astonished and delighted.
• Flender said Shen Ranxi would obtain her Third Soul Ring after school began, when the new students could join the trip as training.
• Two mornings later, Shen Ranxi's heavy Golden Cudgel left deep footprints in the stone path, and she said it weighed more than five thousand jin.
• Shao Xin told Shen Ranxi that her Dean had something to discuss with her.

Shen Ranxi helped oversee Shrek Academy’s enrollment and revealed her extraordinary thousand-year second Soul Ring, astonishing the applicants and Dai Mubai. She, Oscar, and Dai Mubai reached the final test, where Shen Ranxi devised their tactics and began attacking Zhao Wuji.

• Shen Ranxi watched Lu Qibin reject applicants who failed Shrek Academy’s strict requirements and quietly refilled his cup.
• Dai Mubai joined Shen Ranxi and Oscar in the enrollment line, then revealed he was level twenty-six and advanced to the final test with them.
• Shen Ranxi summoned her Martial Soul and displayed a yellow Soul Ring and a thousand-year purple second Soul Ring, stunning the crowd.
• Zhao Wuji set the trio a challenge to coordinate and injure him before an incense stick burned, while limiting himself to three Soul Skills.
• Shen Ranxi assigned tactics, accepted an Oscar sausage, and attacked Zhao Wuji alongside Dai Mubai, but Zhao Wuji caught both their strikes and sent them stumbling back.